Maria and Khalil are the perfect couple. They live together in a black bohemian enclave in Brooklyn. They've even landed a starring role in a documentary about "new people" like them, who are blurring the old boundaries as a brave new era dawns. Everything Maria knows she should want lies before her--yet she can't stop daydreaming about another man, a poet she barely knows ... A subversive novel of race, class and manners in contemporary America.